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--I sure hope you are on antibiotics.
Any contnued dental pain could likely be caused by or intensified by an infection. All dental surgeries get infected and all need antibiotics. Both to prevent endocarditis (a heart valve infection) AND TO SPEED HEALING. Any irritation of the surgical site retards healing. Any "inflammation of the bone" could be osteomyelitis-a bone infection-one of the worst pains described and very hard to treat with antibiotics once it takes hold.
If you think your oral surgeon knows this...most don't.They are not microbiologists and there's an old saying that "surgeons don't believe in the 'germ theory of disease'".
Example: an adult relative of mine had a badly impacted and infected wisdom tooth. His oral surgeon had a great rep and did excellent work in a difficult situation, but he said no antibiotics were needed. I called his regular doc and explained the situation. He vigorously agreed with me and prescribed antibiotics. When my relative went back to the oral surgeon for his post-surgical checkup, the surgeon was very surprised that this extensive surgery had healed so quickly. He then agreed that,perhaps, there was a place for antibiotics!
--I am aware that there is great over-use of antibiotics. Dental coverage is not one of them. As anyone who contracted a life-threatenng case of endocarditis from dental surgery or other dental problems will tell you.
--If your pain continues and you feel your oral surgeon is inattentive, go to your regular doc.
Good luck.
E.
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